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In her first published mystery, Agatha Christie introduced readers to her Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. When the wealthy mistress of Styles Court is murdered, Poirot is on hand to wade through the confusing clues and long list of suspects! A classic whodunit. ...
On their first trip to Europe, their 15th anniversary celebrations are delayed when they board a luxury yacht, a murder occurs, and they're the number one suspects. Looks like these two amateur detectives will have to solve the case to clear their names. It’s a silly, lighthearted romp ...
The second way in which lists and their properties are used humorously in the novels of Agatha Christie is as a characterization device. When Poirot interviews the writer Daniel Clancy in Clouds—at this point in the investigation one of his suspects—the reader first gets a description of ...
The suspects in Only Murders rotate as fast as any Agatha Christie mystery, while the charming banter between the three leads (as well as an inspiring collection of autumnal coats and sweaters) keeps you riveted. In season 2, Amy Schumer called Only Murders in the Building's meta podcast ...
Having written more than 80 detective novels during her lifetime, it’s safe to say Agatha Christie is considered a household name when it comes to the genre. Her second novel, The Secret Adversary, introduces the reader to Tommy and Tuppence, two characters who reoccur in other Christie tale...
When a neighbor claims that his wife Carrie has disappeared, Linda is not convinced; she suspects him of murder, and as the rest of the town searches for Carrie, Linda follows her own clues, which draw her further away from her community, and her marriage. $26.95 Scherm, Rebecca, Un...
When the death of an old friend is ruled a suicide, Travis suspects murder and a conspiracy. PB. May. $16. 121.MacDonald, John D., Darker Than Amber, Random House. Travis McGee learns of a lonely heart sting baiting rich men, reeling in their money and dumping their bodies in the ...
It was Eliot's poem that inspired Agatha Christie when she reworked Beauty & the Beast into her Mary Westmacott novel The Rose and the Yew Tree: "The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew tree are of equal duration." In other words, anything is possible, doors can always be ...
Unlike most of the characters in Death on the Nile, who only appear in this mystery, Colonel Race features in four of Christie's books, including two Poirot novels. In Cards on the Table, an eccentric wealthy man brings together several criminology experts, including Race and Poirot, and ind...